[Thincrust-devel] Problem creating ec2Appliance

[Cameron Ross]

Hi Bryan,

I've attached the custom KickStart file I'm now working with.  I've also
attached the appliance-creator command I'm using and the resulting output.

Thanks,
Cameron.


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/18/2009 08:26 AM, Cameron Ross wrote:
>
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> I'm using a fully updated version of Fedora 11 with
>> appliance-tools-004.4-2.fc11.noarch.  Output from uname -a is:
>>     Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug
>> 27 21:39:52 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> To summarize, for issue 1 my process outputs:
>>     Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is
>> not fatal)
>>     Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is
>> not fatal)
>>
>> Whereas your process outputs:
>>     Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  28 sectors are
>> embedded.
>>     succeeded
>>
>> Your process also performs several tasks once the grub setup is
>> complete.  Not sure where to do from here?
>>
>>
>> For issue 2, the ec2-convert script calls a thincrust script called
>> rpmcheck.py.  It looks like this script checks to see if the
>> openssh-server and curl packages are included within the package set for
>> the appliance.  If not then the script issues the error I'm seeing.
>> So,  it looks like the ec2Appliance kickstart file is missing
>> openssh-server which is simple enough to fix.  However, it does raise
>> the question as to whether or not an EC2 image generated using the
>> ec2Appliance kiskstart file has ever been tested.  Has anyone tried this
>> yet?  Should I submit a patch adding openssh-server and possibly curl,
>> to ec2Appliance.ks?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cameron.
>>
>>
> Can you send me the ks you are using? Thanks!
>
> -- kb
>
>
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